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Time Estimation and Personality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. E. Orme
J. E. Orme*
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Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield 6
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Recent time estimation studies (e.g. Loehlin 1959, Frankenhaeuser 1959, Wallace and Rabin, 1960) although carrying on studies dating back to the time of Vierodt and Wundt, suggest that time experiments merit more attention in modern psychology and psychiatry. Two omissions are (a) the time estimation of periods longer than one or two minutes and (b) the possible relation of individual variations of these estimates with individual personalty variations of a normal and abnormal kind. Everyday anecdote and observation in fact, do suggest a relationship in stressing how the passage of time varies with differing emotional states, even in normal people. In clinical groups striking variations of time experience have been recorded (see e.g. Dubois, 1954).

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Psychopathology
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 108 , Issue 453 , March 1962 , pp. 213 - 216
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1962 

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